After having two beautiful boys, I didn't expect that my third child, although a girl, would prove to be much different. I couldn't have been more wrong!
While my magnitude of love is equal amongst the three, the connection I feel to her is beyond words. It is a feeling so deep within; an understanding of her essence. She is a child who has entered this world with all her feminine glory. She has given me inspiration and strength that I never knew was within me.
She has much to live up to with a namesake such as Rumi, but there is no doubt in my mind she will rise high to the calling. The following poem is one of my favorites. Hopefully someday, my own little Rumi, will bring such beautiful words to the world.
She Is The Creator
There's a tradition that Muhammad said, " A wise man
will listen and be led by
a woman, while an ignorant man will not." Someone too
fiercely drawn by animal
urges lacks kindness and the gentle affections
that keep men human.
Anger and sharp desiring are animal qualities. A
loving tenderness toward
women shows someone no longer pulled along by wanting.
The core of the feminine
comes directly as a ray of the sun. Not the earthly
figure you hear about in
love songs; there's more to her mystery than that. You
might say she's not from
the manifest world at all, but the creator of it.
-Rumi
